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  • Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
    Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600

    Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.





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  • Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
    Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200

    Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.





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  • Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
    Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550

    Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.





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  • Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
    Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000

    Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.





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  • Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
    Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800

    Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.





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  • Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
    Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600

    An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.





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  • Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull
    Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900

    Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.





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  • The Kelton Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
    'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700

    Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.





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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor AE Antoninianus.
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor AE Antoninianus. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £26

    Camulodunum(?) mint. IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [FORTVNA AVG], Fortuna standing to left, holding rudder and cornucopia; [C?] in exergue. Cf. RIC V.2 235; cf. Webb 287. 2.02gr, 18mm, 2h

    Near Very Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £7

    Uncertain mint. [...]VSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed(?) bust to right, seen from front / [PR]OV[I]D AV[G], Providentia standing facing, head to left, holding sceptre with right hand and cornucopia with left; [globe?] at feet to left, [C?] in exergue. Cf. RIC V.2 348 (Camulodunum mint). 2.30gr, 22mm, 12h

    Near Very Fine. Edge chipped.

    Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £13

    Camulodunum mint. [IMP] CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ORIE[...], Sol walking to left with right hand raised, holding whip in left; C below. RIC V.2 294. 2.33gr, 24mm, 8h

    Very Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Very Rare Type
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £20

    Uncertain British mint; struck AD 286-293. IMP CARAVSI[VS P F AVG], radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / LA[ETITIA A]VG, Laetitia standing to left, holding wreath and anchor. RIC V.2 823; Webb 921. 3.79gr, 21mm, 7h

    Very Fine.

    Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector.

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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

    Unattributed mint; struck AD 287-293. IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate and draped bust to right / P[AX] A[V]G, Pax standing to left, holding branch and long sceptre. RIC V.2 880; Webb 985. 3.68gr, 22mm, 12h

    Near Very Fine.

    Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector.

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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Apparently Unpublished Variant
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £65

    London mint. 1st officina. [IMP C] CARAVSIVS AV[G], radiate and draped bust to right / [CON]SERVATORI A[VGG?]G, Jupiter standing facing, head to left, holding thunderbolt in right hand and vertical sceptre in left hand, eagle at foot to left, head to right, S P across fields; MLXXI in exergue. Cf. RIC V.2 45 (globe at foot); cf. RIC V.5 2186. 2.69gr, 20mm, 6h

    Near Very Fine. Apparently unpublished variant.

    Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

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  • Allectus, Romano-British Emperor BI Quinarius.
    Allectus, Romano-British Emperor BI Quinarius. AD 293-296.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £13

    'C' mint; struck 295-296. IMP C ALLECTVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS AVG, galley to left, with five rowers, mast and cabin, no waves below; QC below. RIC V 128; Rogiet 1041; Burnett, Coinage 215. 2.74gr, 19mm, 6h

    Near Very Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Very Rare
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £13

    Uncertain mint. IMP C CARAVSIVS P AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / PAX AVG, Pax standing to left, holding olive branch and sceptre; S-P across fields. Cf. RIC V.2 484 (obverse legend). 3.56gr, 22mm, 7h

    Near Very Fine. Very rare.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £20

    London mint. IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / PAX AVG, Pax standing to left, holding olive branch and vertical sceptre; ML in exergue. RIC V 101. 4.34gr, 25mm, 12h

    Near Very Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Carausius, Romano-British Emperor AE Denarius.
    Unique Denarius of Carausius
    Carausius, Romano-British Emperor AE Denarius. AD 286-293.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £312

    'RSR' mint(?). IMP CARAVSIVS [P AVG?], laureate bust to left, wearing imperial mantle and holding eagle-tipped sceptre in right hand / CONCO[...], Concordia, draped, standing to right, holding standard in left hand and clasping right hand with soldier, wearing military attire, standing to left and holding spear in left hand; RSR(?) in exergue. Not in the standard references. 3.53gr, 20mm, 6h

    Near Very Fine. Unpublished combination of obverse and reverse types and seemingly unique.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Allectus, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Allectus, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 293-296.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £7

    London mint. IMP C ALLECTVS P F AVG, radiate, draped(?) and cuirassed bust to right / PAX AVG, Pax standing facing, head to left, holding olive branch with right hand and transverse sceptre with left; S A across fields, ML in exergue. Cf. RIC V.2 33. 3.43gr, 19mm, 1h

    Near Very Fine.

    Found Suffolk, UK.

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  • Allectus, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Allectus, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 293-296.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £7

    'C' mint. IMP C ALLECTVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing to left, holding globe in right hand and cornucopia in left; S-P across fields, C in exergue. RIC V.2 108; Webb 164. 3.45gr, 21mm, 7h

    Near Very Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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